CRUIT, Patrick

CRUIT, Patrick R. (1959-2011) , 52, drowned while attending the 22nd annual Buccaneer Days at the Isthmus, Santa Catalina Island.

Cruit was cremated and his cremains were among those left unclaimed Los Angeles County Crematory. They were interred at the Los Angeles County Crematorium Cemetery in Boyle Heights on December 10, 2014, by the Department of Decedent Affairs.

In the News~

December 30, 2011 [TI/Avalon]: “Man dies at Buccaneer Day. The victim fell into the water as he was getting into his dinghy. He hit his head and went under. A man died in Two Harbors on Saturday night, Oct. 1, apparently after hitting his head on a float while trying to board his dinghy, according to a Los Angeles Sheriff's Department report. The man was identified as Patrick Cruit, 52, of Costa Mesa. According to the report, Los Angeles Sheriff Bruce Strelow was on the Isthmus Pier late that night when he saw Coast Guard and Baywatch personnel running to help a man who had apparently fallen off one of the three dinghy docks. At about 10:40 p.m., Cruit was on the northwest side of the dinghy dock. Cruit tried to sit down on the edge of the float. His backside apparently missed the float and he fell into the water. Cruit hit his head on the float as he went into the water west of the dock, according to the Strelow report. A Baywatch paramedic dove under the dock and found Cruit unconscious and submerged at about 10:43 p.m. Four Baywatch paramedics worked on him on the surface. He was pronounced dead at 11:13 p.m. Strelow and another deputy transported Cruit's body to Avalon Harbor by boat.”